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uratlve. really want TO KNOW, aIter tno
body is resurrected, what they wear and
what they eat: and have an immeasur-
able curiosity to know what it is and how
it is and where it is.
Columbus risked his life to find this
continent and shall we shudder TO go
out on a voyage OF discovery which shall
reveal vaster and more brilliant coun-
trys John Franklin risked his life to find
passage between icebergs, and shall we
dread to find passage to eternal sum-
merl Men in Switzerland travel up the
heights of the Matterhorn with alpen-
stock, and guides, and rockets, and
ropes, and, getting half way up,
stumble and fall down in hor
rible massacre. They just want to
say they had been on the tops of
those high peaks And shall we fear to
go out for the ascent of the eternal hills
which start q thousand miles beyond
where stop the highest peaks of the Alps,
aud when in that ascent there is no perila
A man doomed to die stepped on the
scaffold and said in Joy:
Snow, in ten minutes will know the
great secret"
One minute after the vital functions
ceased the little child that died last night
in Montague street knew more than iona.
than Edwards, or St Paul himself, before
he died.
Friends, the exit from the world, or
death if you please to call it, to the Chris
tian is glorious explanation. 1t is DEM
onstration. 1t is illumination. 1t is sun
burst. 1t is the opening Of all the win
dows. 1t is shutting up the cate
chism of doubt, and the unrolling Of all
the scrolls of positive and accurate in
formation. Instead of standing at the foot
of the ladder and looking up, it is stand
ing at the top Of the ladder and looking
down. 1t is the last mystery taken out of
botany, and geology and astronomy and
theology.
o, will it not be grand to have all ques-
tions answered. The perpetually recur-
ring Interrogation point changed for the
mark Of exclamation. All riddles solved.
Who will fear to go out on thatdiscovery,
and when all the ques tions are to be de-
cided which we have been discussing all
| our lives? Who shall not clap his hands
| in the anticipation of that blessed coun.
| try, if it be no better than through holy
| curiosity, crying:
The time Of my departure is at hand.
Iremark, again, we ought to have the
| joy Of the text, because, leaving this
| world, we move into the best society of
| the universe. You see great crowd OF
| people in some street, and you say:
"Who is passing there2 What general,
what prince is going up theref'
| Well, I sec great throng in Heaven. ]
| say:
"Who is the focus of all that admira-
tion2 Who is the center of that glitter.
ing companyf'
! 1t is Jesus, the champion of all worlds,
| the tavorite of all ages. Do you know
what is the first question the soul will
ask when it comes through the gate of
Heavena / think the first question will
| be:
'Where is Jesus, the Saviour, that par
doned my sin; that carried my sorrows,
that fought my battles: that won my
victoriesF'
! o radiant onel how would like to see
thee! Thou of the manger, but witho at
its humiliation; thou of the cross, but
without its pangs; thou of the grave, but
| without it's darkness.
| The Bible intimates that we will talk
with Jesus in Heaven just as brother
talks with brother. Now, what will you
ask him firstl I do not know. / can
think what would ask Paul first, if saw
him in Heaven. think I would like to
| uOdT ulH uoSCElDS buo SCOrm Gf1at
came upon the ship when there
were two hundred and seventy-five
souls on the vessel, Paul being the only
man on board cool enough to describe the
storm. There is fascination about a
ship and the sea that shall never gel
over, and think would like to hear him
talk about that first
But when meet my Lord Jesus Christ
of what shall I first delight 10 hear him
speak? Now / think what it is: / shall
| first want to hear the tragedy of his last
hours, and then Luke's account of the
crucifixion will be nothing, while from the
living lips of Christ the story shall be told
of the gloom that fell, and the devils that
arose, and the fact that upon his ldur-
ance derended the rescue of race, and
there was darkness in the sky, and there
was darkness in the soul, and the pair
became more sharp and the burdens be
came more heavy, until the mob began tt
swim away from the dying vision OF
Christ, and the cursing of the mob came
to his ear more family, and his hands
were fastened to the horizontal piece oil
the cross. and his feet were fastened tt
the perpendicular piece Of the cross, AND
his head fell forward in o swoon as hi
uttered the last moan, and cried:
It is finished.
All Heaven will stop to listen until the
story is done, and every harp will be pu
down, and every lip closed and all eye
fixed on the divine narrator until the
story is done; and then, at the tap of the
baton, the eternal orchestra will rouse
up, finger on string of harp and lips tt
the mouth OF trumpet, there shall rol
forth the oratorio of the Messiah:
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receiv,
blessing, and riches. and honor. and glory, ant
power world without end
What he endured. oh, who can tell,
To save our souls from death and HE'LL
When there was between Paul and that
magnificent parsonage only the thinness
OF the sharp edge of the sword of the ex
ecutioner, do you wonder that he wanted
to goa o, my Lord Jesus, let the wave o.
that glory roll over this auditory! Hark
hear the wedding bells of Heaven ring
ing now. The marriage of the Lamb ha.
come, and the bride hath made herself
ready.
HOMES OF ENGLAND.
The Modest Beauty OF the Average Coun
try Residence.